2 HOUR HUNT*1840'S HOME A FEW HOUSES UP

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Had 2 hours to kill this afternoon.the 85 year old gentleman that lives 2 houses up said i could hunt his yard. there is barely any yard.he did alot of earth moving back in the 1950's and has a tiered back yard now.not too many targets in the diggable areas.
my first target was this stamped copper disc that i thought was a large copper coin.(still not convinced that it wasn't at some point) :confused:
a pretty cool hoover token (thought it was the vacum cleaner at first) rofl.
then it hit me :bop: herbert hoover! :cheesysmile: it's a campaign token from 1928
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/271392/72261/Herbert-Hoover-campaign-token-192:dontknow:/url]
a busted piece of colonial shoe buckle,2 neat little buttons.one the shank is rotted away and may be civil war marine button. a old personalized unengraved dog tag(i have 2 of these the same now) some brass odds n ends. a small chinese cash coin and a small lead minnie ball.
he said come back anytime but,like i said not much yard area.
 

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You got a couple of keepers there. Some good buttons, a nice token and a wanna be copper lol It's probably not one though. If it's the size of a large cent, you should see some area that would let you say it's a coin. Judging from the ok condition that the other targets came out in, corrosion would not be an issue on the coin. But it's your disc....if you wanna call it a coppa, then call it a coppa lol I'd go back and do it again, what do you have to lose? :yes:
 
Very cool finds. Love the campain token. The grond there seems really fogiving. Ours would have those things eaten up by now. Well done.
 

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